Regional Council Eshkol is situated in north west Negev
desert, was founded in 1951 as Hevel Ma'on and changed
its name in 1969 and named after the third Prime Minister of
Israel Levy Eshkol. The Regional Council unites 29 settlements
with 11,000 inh.
The Regional Council sent me a real flag, blue with a black
emblem, and the official who sent it said the original emblem was
brown-white, and nowadays it appears as white on green on
official papers. The municipal emblem was published in the
official gazette (Rashumot), YP 663, 16 April 1959, for
the then Regional Council Hevel Ma'on. It includes an ear of
wheat, furrels and a piece of barbed wire. Sources: letter from the Regional Council, Regional
Council flag sample, emblem and this
webpage.Dov Gutterman, 12 September 2001